Ali ibn Abi Talib Quotes

A man's measure is his will.

Ali ibn Abi Talib

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• When I was six, the Korean War broke out, and all the classrooms were destroyed by war. We studied under the trees or in whatever buildings were left.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • War
  • Trees
  • Buildings

• I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Career
  • Comedy
  • Expand

• I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • High
  • Earth
  • Confidence

• Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Want
  • Stone
  • New Things

• The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Never
  • Jail
  • Jury

• I feel great physically. I feel really good.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Feel

• I truly believe that my songs bring the answers and the solutions, as opposed to just talking about the problems. My music at its core is joyful.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Problems

• Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Health

• We're in the service business by nature, but when we can transition that into ownership things, we love it. Our clients love it, too. We get deluged with offers to get involved with this or that. Silver Lake helps us funnel those opportunities.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Love
  • Business
  • Nature

• I do have a lot of female friends who are stand-ups and also women who are actresses and also happen to have an act.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • Women
  • Friends
  • Act

• There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • California
  • Say
  • Tea

• If you have an opportunity to reach people on a broad scale, it's not enough to just entertain people. You have to take responsibility. You has to do something substantial. Otherwise you're squandering what you have.

  

  Jack Reynor
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • You

• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Myself
  • Street
  • Woods

• I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Fighting
  • Spirit
  • Army

• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • American
  • Community

• The commodity price easing really does not play too much role in our margins because our basic raw material - steel - is not really a commodities engineering steel.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Engineering
  • Price
  • Too Much

• There was, of course, a global financial crisis. But our Labour predecessors left Britain exceptionally vulnerable and damaged: more personal debt than any other major economy; a dangerously inflated property bubble; and a bloated banking sector behaving as masters, not the servants of the people.

  

  Vince Cable
  • People
  • Financial
  • Debt

• Fighting is pure chaos, and to be a good fighter you simply have to be prepared mentally and physically to handle that chaos.

  

  B.J. Penn
  • Good
  • Fighting
  • Chaos

• When I started doing projects for TV, I made sure to participate in the brainstorming sessions.

  

  Coco Martin

• We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Superhuman

• Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon the dictum of learned authorities, but upon attentive personal observation of what is passing around us.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Words

• Thus far, no candidate has appropriately addressed these and other much-needed operational issues of the House.

  

  Charles Bass
  • House
  • Issues
  • Candidate

• A man's measure is his will.

  

  Ali ibn Abi Talib